decommission

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Dangerously high radiation levels make removing melted fuel and other debris from the plant hit by a huge tsunami in 2011 the most daunting challenge in the decades-long decommissioning project.

From Barron's

Walker’s work was the only transformed statue out of the nearly dozen decommissioned statues related to the Confederacy featured in the “Monuments” exhibition.

From Los Angeles Times

The town could be decommissioned before then to allow over 800 local residents to be re-located elsewhere, making them the country's first climate refugees.

From BBC

Holtec, with an annual income exceeding $500 million, is expanding from nuclear waste storage and plant decommissioning to building and operating its own nuclear plants.

From Barron's

Now Holtec is adding a new business line on top of its decommissioning and nuclear waste operations: It plans to build and potentially operate its own plants, starting with the reactor in Michigan.

From Barron's